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5 days ago · On All Saints’ Day 1946 — 75 years ago — St. John Paul II was ordained a priest in the private chapel of the archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Adam Sapieha, who had just been elevated to the sacred college earlier that year. “The story of my priestly vocation?”
3 days ago · The earliest Fathers of the Church all speak of Peter’s martyrdom in Rome. He was crucified head downwards, around AD 63, in Rome on Vatican hill, which is why St. Peter’s Basilica was located there. St. Paul came from Tarsus, a city in what is today southeast Turkey not far from Adana.
Anna Pietrus, September 18, 2023 — 3 minutes read, ChurchPop. On Sept. 19 of every year, the Polish people celebrate the feast of Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a martyr whose heroic life and death contributed to Poland’s liberation from the communist regime.
2 days ago · Pope John Paul I was the first pope to abandon the coronation, and he was also the first pope to choose a double name (John Paul) for his papal name. His successor, Karol Józef Wojtyła, chose the same name. He was the first pope to have a Papal inauguration and the last pope to use the Sedia Gestatoria .
1 day ago · Pope Francis has long wanted to visit Asia and will be seeking to promote intercultural and inter-religious dialogue during his upcoming visit, said Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe, one of the key ...
5 days ago · The foreign-born priest was killed, but he had a spiritual son: Augustine Zhao Rong asked for holy orders, becoming the first Chinese-born diocesan priest. In 1815, Fr. Augustine followed his spiritual father to torture and martyrdom.
2 days ago · Then-pope John Paul II, now a saint, bestowed on Ka Luring in 1990 the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for her service as a volunteer catechist following the recommendation of the late Manila Archbishop ...
